"Beautiful Park"

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Rollin Hunt has a pretty impressive CV. Originally from Chicago, the Los Angeles-based production designer has worked on projects like this ad for the NBA and the independent film Wolves From Another Kingdom. Not to be outdone by his visual side, Hunt's bombed-out lo-fi recordings have also inspired early Ariel Pink-like devotion, leading to a tribute album by equally obscure bands in 2008. Four years later, the multimedia artist seems to be moving away from the doo-wop swing of his earlier releases with the dark, hazy "Beautiful Park" off his forthcoming debut full-length, The Phoney. Hunt drags his husk of a low register over a bed of fizzling synthesizers a la Matthew Dear, electrocuted and left for dead, crawling through the wreckage of his equipment. Hunt builds the track's melodic tension to hair-raising effect, releasing it at the last minute with his erstwhile optimism in arpeggiated sprinkles.